![]() In October, the museum will open EJ Hill's first solo museum show and largest exhibition to date, "Brake Run Helix." The exhibition will fill Mass MoCA's Building 5 Gallery, with a massive sculptural installation that incorporates a stage for performances as well as a functional roller coaster. Seen here, "joy study (pre-drop palms)," 2019. Visual artist EJ Hill's first solo show and largest exhibition will open in Mass MoCA's Building 5 Gallery in October. The installation, he said in a recent Sunday Salon hosted by the Thomas Cole National Historic Site, explores the parallel paths of how we, as a society, initially dealt with the AIDS crisis and similarly are dealing with the ongoing climate crisis ignoring and putting off these issues, while also dealing with the resulting impacts of loss and grief, and the inability to control human nature. "A Memorial to Ice at the Dead Deer Disco," inspired by natural history museum dioramas and by Hudson River School painter Thomas Cole's writings on the negative impact of industrialization and development of the Catskills region of New York, Swanson has created site specific installations that will be shown at Mass MoCA and in a companion exhibit at the Thomas Cole National Historic Site in Catskill, N.Y., from July 13 to Nov. Seen here is detail from"Chambre," by Swanson and Jack Ferver. Works on view will range from tiny to outsized-including a 16-foot-tall Shaker broom, made of recycled material and made in residence at Mass MoCA.Īrtist Marc Swanson will present "Memorial to Ice at the Dead Deer Disco" at Mass MoCA beginning March 12. While in residence at the Recycled Artists in Residency Program (RAIR) in Philadelphia, the sculptor became fascinated by a giant bale of tinsel she found, and how the material continually transforms from its use in celebrations to trash. Accompanying 700,000:1 will be a new installation about the unfathomability and allure of the moon, commissioned by Mass MoCA and created in residency at the museum.Ĭox-Richard's "Weep Holes" will address ideas of stewardship, beauty and threat, collective action, and building and dismantling. Hauft aims to make visitors palpably aware of their relationship to the curve of the earth and our distance from the moon in "700,000:1 | Terra + Luna + Sol" which takes its title from the mathematical odds of a person on Earth being hit by a meteor.Ĭonstructed from two enormous spheres on the floor and the ceiling, viewers will be invited to ascend the lower sphere and place their heads in the upper sphere, invoking the feeling of being simultaneously on the ground and in the sky. Detail from "Chambre" by Marc Swanson and Jack Ferver, PHOTO PROVIDED BY JOE MAMA NITZBERG
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